All right then, if that's decided then I suppose it would be about time for a CS. I am privately still trying to work out some kind of justification as to just why consuming another being's heart would increase one's magical powers, though... It makes sense with Harvesters (...my increasing awareness of my own past ignorance is starting to bother me. There is really no way for me to justify writing that with capital H, is there? I'll probably have to change that, too) because they are fundamentally different from mortals and don't have souls as mortals do. The heart is the seat of the Seeds only, which is a part of the soul separate from its magical energy... I'll have to think of something there.
And it was decided that they would not have afterlives? Because of their believing that they won't have them or because they are somehow fundamentally incapable of having them? It's an interesting thought, though... a dead mortal soul that isn't processed into an afterlife would normally manifest as a ghost or specter, or even a true undead, but for them to simply disperse upon death? Highly unusual. It also occurs to me that if this was really the case then the del-korm would leave an impression upon the ambient nature where they die that would be many times stronger than any other mortal. Assuming that there are forests in their homeland, considering their short life expectancy, this would probably mean that nearly every forest in their homeland are Living Woods, which would continue to be strongly influenced by every del-korm to die in them. Nature where they lived would be utterly saturated with the energy, memories and personalities of the dead. It'd be a right mess! Sounds like fun.
Eating a heart could indeed be considered acceptable by some cultures, but unfortunately this is not the case in Rodoria... or most of civilized Reniam, for that matter. And since the growth of one's Seeds of Good and Evil is affected by others' perception of what you have done the act would have a very strong evil tint to it there, and even in lands where it was considered non-evil it would still cause some growth simply due to the general ethical tendency of the Plane as a whole. That said, having your heart eaten by a harvester would not eliminate your soul per se; as I said the heart only contains a part of the soul, which is separate from the one formed of magical energy. Harvesters only eat the Seeds, which does prevent the Wanderer from recognizing their deaths and sending them on to an afterlife... but it doesn't destroy them. They keep existing, no longer having the ability to perceive good or evil (just like the harvester itself) and incapable of passing on.

Ah, and how would you like to have I'on involved, yoshua? I was halfway hoping that the two new characters would appear IC so that a group could start to assemble (they will be in Zerul City, if I recall correctly) that will eventually meet and merge with Aemoten's group... once they actually bloody get there. Maybe I'on would have noticed the fight between Blue and Ixion and Morgan? She did use some pretty flashy magic, after all, in the middle of the city.